{"id":12351,"date":"2018-08-28T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/?p=12351"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:32:48","slug":"removing-myanmar-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2018\/08\/removing-myanmar-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Removing Myanmar Military Officials From Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update added on December 18, 2018 at 5:00PM PT to include additional takedowns:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Taking Down More Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior in Myanmar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, we removed 425 Facebook Pages, 17 Facebook Groups, 135 Facebook accounts and 15 Instagram accounts in Myanmar for engaging in <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/2018\/12\/inside-feed-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior\/\">coordinated inauthentic behavior<\/a> on Facebook. As part of our ongoing investigations into this type of behavior in Myanmar, we discovered that these seemingly independent news, entertainment, beauty and lifestyle Pages were linked to the Myanmar military, and to the Pages we removed for coordinated inauthentic behavior in Myanmar in August. This kind of behavior is not allowed on Facebook under our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communitystandards\/misrepresentation\">misrepresentation policy<\/a> because we don&#8217;t want people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presence on Facebook and Instagram: 425 Facebook Pages, 17 Facebook Groups, 135 Facebook accounts and 15 Instagram accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Followers:\n<ul>\n<li>Approximately 2.5 million people followed at least one of these Facebook Pages<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 6,400 people belonged to at least one of these Facebook Groups<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 1,300 people followed at least one these Instagram accounts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some of the most followed Facebook Pages were:\n<ul>\n<li>Down for Anything \u1018\u102c\u101c\u102c\u101c\u102c\u101d\u102f\u1014\u1039\u1038<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s Laugh Casually \u1031\u1015\u102b\u1094\u1031\u1015\u102b\u1094\u1015\u102b\u1038\u1015\u102b\u1038\u101b\u101a\u1039\u107e\u1000\u1019\u101a\u1039<\/li>\n<li>We Love Myanmar<\/li>\n<li>Knowledge<\/li>\n<li>All About Myanmar \u103b\u1019\u1014\u1039\u1019\u102c\u1021\u103c\u1014\u1039\u101c\u102d\u102f\u1004\u1039\u1038\u101e\u1010\u1004\u1039\u1038\u1005\u1036\u102f<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our decision to remove these Pages was based on the behavior of these actors rather than on the type of content they were posting. Our investigations in Myanmar are ongoing and we will continue to provide updates on abuse we find and remove.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update added on October 15, 2018 at 8:37 AM PST to include additional takedowns:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today, we removed 13 Pages and 10 accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook in Myanmar. As part of our ongoing investigations into this type of behavior in Myanmar we discovered that these seemingly independent entertainment, beauty and informational Pages were linked to the Myanmar military. This kind of behavior is not allowed on Facebook under our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communitystandards\/misrepresentation\">misrepresentation policy<\/a> because we don&#8217;t want people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Presence on Facebook: 13 Pages, 10 accounts<\/li>\n<li>Followers: About 1.35 million unique people followed at least one of these 13 Pages<\/li>\n<li>Some of the most followed Pages were Beauty and Classic, \u1006\u101b\u102c\u1019\u101c\u1031\u1038\u1019\u103b\u102c\u1038 (Young Female Teachers), \u1005\u1005\u103a\u101e\u102c\u1038 \u1013\u102b\u1010\u103a\u1015\u102f\u1036\u1019\u103b\u102c\u1038 \u1005\u102f\u1005\u100a\u103a\u1038\u1019\u1030 (Collection of Soldier&#8217;s Photos), \u1019\u102d\u102f\u1038\u1014\u1010\u103a\u1019\u1004\u103a\u1038 (Lord of Heaven)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are grateful to The New York Times for sharing what they learned about the use of celebrity and entertainment accounts to push military propaganda, which aided our investigation and this take-down.<\/p>\n<p>The work we are doing to identify and remove bad content, bad behavior and bad actors on Facebook in Myanmar is some of the most important work being done at the company. We want to make it more difficult for people to manipulate our platform in Myanmar and will continue to investigate and take action on this behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original post published on August 28, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ethnic violence in Myanmar has been truly horrific. Earlier this month, we shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/2018\/08\/update-on-myanmar\/\">update<\/a> on the steps we&#8217;re taking to prevent the spread of hate and misinformation on Facebook. While we were too slow to act, we&#8217;re now making progress \u2013 with better technology to identify hate speech, improved reporting tools, and more people to review content.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we are taking more action in Myanmar, removing a total of 18 Facebook accounts, one Instagram account and 52 Facebook Pages, followed by almost 12 million people.\u00a0We are preserving data, including content, on the accounts and Pages we have removed.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, we are banning 20 individuals and organizations from Facebook in Myanmar \u2014 including Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the military&#8217;s Myawady television network. International experts, most recently in a report by the UN Human Rights Council-authorized Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar,\u00a0have found evidence that many of these individuals and organizations committed or enabled serious human rights abuses in the country. And we want to prevent them from using our service to further inflame ethnic and religious tensions. This has led us to remove six Pages and six accounts from Facebook \u2014 and one account from Instagram \u2014 which are connected to these individuals and organizations. We have not found a presence on Facebook or Instagram for all 20 individuals and organizations we are banning.<\/p>\n<p>We have also removed 46 Pages and 12 accounts for engaging in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook. During a recent investigation, we discovered that they used seemingly independent news and opinion Pages to covertly push the messages of the Myanmar military. This type of behavior is banned under our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communitystandards\/misrepresentation\">misrepresentation policy<\/a> because we want people to be able to trust the connections they make.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to work to prevent the misuse of Facebook in Myanmar \u2014 including through the independent human rights impact assessment we commissioned earlier in the year. This is a huge responsibility given so many people there rely on Facebook for information \u2014 more so than in almost any other country given the nascent state of the news media and the recent rapid adoption of mobile phones. It&#8217;s why we&#8217;re so determined to do better in the future.<\/p>\n<p>A sample of the content from these Pages and accounts is included below. These Pages and accounts were removed for coordinated inauthentic behavior, not content violations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=872&#038;h=2048\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12358\" src=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=436&#038;resize=436%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"436\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=1150 1150w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=128 128w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=768 768w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=436 436w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=654 654w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=872 872w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=460 460w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=920 920w, https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/collage_nonviolating.png?w=256 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following pieces of content violate our Community Standards and were removed from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40224866_300466247202660_6941535807471616000_n.png?w=1066&#038;h=2048\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12357\" src=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/40224866_300466247202660_6941535807471616000_n.png?w=533&#038;resize=533%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"1024\" 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